Links to Educational Organizations and Resources

A wide variety of useful material is available on the Web; so much so that a complete, up-to-date, and “perfectly” organized page of links is probably beyond expectation. It has been suggested that the links be separated into groups based on whether they link to organizations or to resources; however, so many of the organizations provide extensive resources of various kinds that such a grouping would be difficult. Actually, that “perfect” page would probably involve lots of well-organized, interrelated web pages that would take considerable work to create and maintain. Clearly, this is task worthy of our Earth Science Education Committee to consider, and anyone else willing to help.

Detailed information regarding U.S. geology and multiple lesson plans, projects and teacher resources. Also provides up to the hour details of recent Natural Hazard activity including Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Flooding of individual streams and rivers.

Good links for information and experiments related to global geospatial information.

eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov/ is another excellent NASA site which features earth/space news and “The Earth Observer” published at the Goddard Space Flight Center. This publication is available in pdf and also as a bi-monthly hard copy. appropriate for educational purposes.

A water resources education site of the Natural Resources Education Center of the Indiana Department of Natural Resources.

Recently Added Global and National News Sources

1. U.S. Climate Change Science Program. An excellent overall summary of potential climate change impacts was released by the federal government during the Summer of 2009. “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States” produced by the U,S, Climate Change Science Program.; It combines authorship of 13 federal agencies with leading scientists from universities and other agencies. The overall report is about 190 PDF pages (13MB) but if you go to the site listed below, you can download separate files which are the Executive Summary, the Key Findings, the Global Science (pages 13-26), or sections on impacts in each region of the country. For example it shows the climate in Indiana being like that of Louisiana by the end of the century. There are also extensive reference lists. To view and download the report or portions of it go to (control-click or insert address):http://globalchange.gov/publications/reports/scientific-assessments/us-impacts

2. Source for Science of Climate Change Another well regarded Climate Science site is http://www.realclimate.org It has articles which discuss and clarify the scientific data related to the climate change skeptic arguments. It also has a very good list of basic articles on the climate change issues

3. Global Environment News. For an excellent Global Environment site to go http://www.earthportal.org This site has forums and a free weekly newsletter to which you can subscribe.

4. Earth Magazine Subscription, If you are readt ti pay for a monthly earth science magazine, try Earth Magazine (http://www.earthmagazine.org) which is produced by the American Geological Institute (http://www.agiweb.org) . The subscription is $34.50 per year or $19.95 for students. The AGI site is also a great place for news and information.